The Séance

Sophia Louisa was nine when three girls, a brand-new Ouija board and a dark house changed how she felt about the thing for good: "all of a sudden everything got really quiet, and the lights went out." So when she sat down at The Séance she would not touch the board, and we did not ask her to. This one is different in another way too: the whole episode is animated, the three of us drawn at the table, lip-synced to the real conversation. New Séance every Tuesday at noon PT. Follow the show so you never miss one.

The Séance, Episode 4: writer, producer and actress Sophia Louisa (@sophialouisalee), co-writer of The Wrecker (Tyrese Gibson, Harvey Keitel, Mena Suvari, Danny Trejo), sits down with Landon Brittain and Danny Alamary. Her new short, Much Too Vulgar, shot the day before and set on the Georgetown campus (and the word parabiosis). The night the lights went out. How The Wrecker got written and what survived to the screen. Ed Wood's pitch, Bela Lugosi's last footage and Vampira, fact-checked. Cannes and Yes She Cannes. The Exorcist and Eileen Dietz. Who really made The Terminator (Danny was right). The Matrix Reloaded's digital Neo (Danny was right again). Ghostbusters, Street Fighter and Raúl Juliá. From Dusk Till Dawn and the clerk who turned out to be John Hawkes. Curry Barker's Obsession and why the win is winning the people. A lightning round answered out loud, no board. And one piece of advice for anyone who wants to write their first horror script: just do it.

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EVERY TUESDAY AT NOON PT
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUD4hbTDPgcUQE52_nzHCLA
Ep. 1 Jasmine Davis and Julio C. Martinez Valle (Killer Revenge): https://youtu.be/yf8ItD7DU5w
Ep. 2 Chris R. Notarile (Blinky Productions, Krueger: Tales from Elm Street): https://youtu.be/rjTOuRaV4o4
Ep. 3 Manta Mystic (channeling an Egyptian goddess, live): https://youtu.be/a7JVRKuj65E
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-s%C3%A9ance/id6820220743
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SOPHIA LOUISA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophialouisalee
The Wrecker (2025, Quiver Distribution): on Fandango at Home and the usual rentals
Sofi Stories: Off the Page, her show

MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
The Wrecker (2025), dir. Art Camacho, written by Sophia Louisa, Niko Foster and James Dean Simington
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and Bride of the Monster (1955), Edward D. Wood Jr.
Obsession (2025), written, directed and edited by Curry Barker (Focus Features)
Street Fighter (2026), dir. Kitao Sakurai; Street Fighter (1994) with Raúl Juliá
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996); King Straggler (John Hawkes, Rodney Eastman, Brentley Gore)
Screamfest LA: https://screamfestla.com

HORRORMEET
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The Atlas (haunted places and filming locations): https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance4
The Estate Sale (buy, sell, trade the macabre): https://horrormeet.com/market.html
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horrormeetapp
Hosts: Landon Brittain @landonxxl · Danny Alamary @ohidanny

CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open: the Ouija night
0:39 Welcome to The Séance
10:17 The Ouija night
17:32 The Wrecker
22:40 Austin Powers, briefly
26:02 Make your own stuff
31:32 Ninety credits
34:20 Ed Wood's pitch
38:10 Festivals and Cannes
41:44 The Exorcist
43:35 The Other Tenant
45:55 The Devil's Heist and a first lead
50:14 Stunts
52:54 AI on set
60:44 The Asset: the motorcycle hit
63:52 CGI, Rick Baker, Stan Winston
67:02 Billion-dollar movies
70:42 Reading scripts
73:27 Street Fighter
76:37 Lightning round
79:55 Who pays for indie films
84:15 Obsession
89:14 Advice: just do it
90:07 The Atlas and the sign-off

The picture is animated; the audio is the real recording. Fact checks on screen are sourced. Opinions about films and studios are the speakers' own.

Four minutes into the sitting, Manta Mystic closes her eyes and an Egyptian goddess named Wadjet starts talking: "I am her guidance, but more than that, I am her master." It is the first time she has ever channeled on camera, and it happens at a table with a Ouija board, two horror hosts and a dog with digestive issues.

The Séance, Episode 3: channel and healer Manta Mystic sits down with Landon Brittain and Danny Alamary. The live channel, start to finish, uncut. What a channeler is and is not (she is not a medium). The paranormal story from this house. Bali, Ubud and the guru. Shaktipat, Reiki, Kundalini. Mantak Chia and sexual transmutation. Wim Hof and DMT. LA's spiritual centres. The business of the unseen. And a word to the skeptics.

Watch the video episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a7JVRKuj65E

Post your own paranormal story on HorrorMeet Sightings, free: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance3

Manta Mystic: https://www.instagram.com/manta.mystic · https://mantamystic.com

Readings and energy work are Manta's own services. The Séance makes no claim about their effects and receives nothing from bookings.

Mentioned: Zula Den (zuladen.org), Patti Negri (pattinegri.com), Mantak Chia, Taoist Secrets of Love (1984) and Healing Love Through the Tao (1986), Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich.

Hosts: Landon Brittain (@landonxxl) and Danny Alamary (@ohidanny). From HorrorMeet: https://horrormeet.com

The channeling is presented as the guest's own practice; The Séance makes no claim about what it is or where it comes from. DMT is a Schedule I controlled substance in the United States; nothing here is medical advice or an endorsement of any substance. Opinions are the speakers' own.

Warner Bros. legal called a fan filmmaker at the movies to tell him they had a file on him. Chris R. Notarile made six chapters of a Freddy Krueger prequel anyway, plus 400 shorts for almost nothing. New Séance every Tuesday at noon PT: subscribe and ring the bell so you're in the chat when the next one premieres.

The Séance, Episode 2: Chris R. Notarile (Blinky Productions, Krueger: Tales from Elm Street) sits down at the table with Landon Brittain and Danny Alamary: mockbusters and The Asylum, the first horror movie he saw at 16, making films for $10, Marvel pulling his Deadpool series, Fox and Prey, and a lightning round answered on a Ouija board.

Krueger: Tales from Elm Street is on the HorrorMeet Film Shelf, free: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance2

EVERY TUESDAY AT NOON PT

Ep. 1 Jasmine Davis and Julio C. Martinez Valle (Killer Revenge): https://youtu.be/yf8ItD7DU5w

Ep. 3: next Tuesday, Oct 20, at noon PT.

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/20qpMJI0zQFF4KfFqhitvE

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-s%C3%A9ance/id6820220743

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CHRIS

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@blinky500

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blinky500

Books on Kindle and in print: https://www.amazon.com/Chris-R-Notarile/e/B0GHSLCQ6V

The Lost Blinky Fan Films (Deadpool, Punisher, Daredevil): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLctLdbuxkDm9H5OqzXgOUvlFpnP5xQboX

Lindsey Bean: https://www.instagram.com/reallindseybean · Baked by Bean: https://www.instagram.com/bakedbybeanofficial

HORRORMEET

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The Estate Sale (buy, sell, trade the macabre): https://horrormeet.com/market.html

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horrormeetapp

Hosts: Landon Brittain @landonxxl · Danny Alamary @ohidanny

CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open: the board answers

0:32 Welcome to The Séance

2:04 The Krueger prequel

6:18 Danny, sommelier of horror

11:22 Why Michael Myers can't have a backstory

17:18 First horror film at 16: Halloween

19:54 The Blockbuster years

21:40 Krueger: first film on the Shelf

23:26 100,000 subscribers, a penny a view

25:58 The Asylum: 'I almost got mockbusted'

30:22 Freddie with an IE: do you take the money?

32:24 Photographic novels and Landon's first comic

35:54 Cookies, pop-up books and the Estate Sale

40:48 Deadpool, two strikes, 13 fan films

43:18 The Warner Brothers phone call

47:15 Prey vs. Warrior: Predator

52:52 Why hasn't Hollywood picked you up?

53:21 Lightning round on the Ouija board

56:23 Where to find Chris, and why 'Blinky'

61:30 Sign-off

Opinions are the speakers' own. The Séance makes no claim about any company's business practices. Fact checks on screen are sourced; nothing here is legal advice.

Photos and posters are credited on screen; licensed images via Wikimedia Commons.

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A micro-budget horror director on the note that made her best scene, the crew that quit on her, and why perfection will kill your film. New Séance every Tuesday at noon PT. Follow the show so you never miss one.

The Séance, Episode 1: Jasmine Davis and Julio C. Martinez Valle (Killer Revenge). Horror fans sit down with the people who make independent horror. Director, writer and star Jasmine Davis and her cinematographer Julio C. Martinez Valle talk about making Killer Revenge on a micro budget, the crew that fell apart, why a great cinematographer is your eyes when you're in front of the camera, and why perfection will kill your project.

Watch Killer Revenge free on the HorrorMeet Film Shelf: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance1
Join free at https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance1, where the next Séance is announced.
Instagram: @horrormeetapp
Watch the video episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yf8ItD7DU5w

GUESTS
Jasmine Davis: Instagram @thejasminedavis
Julio C. Martinez Valle: Instagram @juliocmvalle and @mushroomhouseproductions

HOSTS
Landon Brittain: Instagram @landonxxl
Danny Alamary: Instagram @ohidanny
Special appearance by London Brittain: @london2xl

CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open: "Please be obnoxious"
0:27 Welcome to The Séance
1:45 Killer Revenge: karma and choices
2:27 Where to watch: the HorrorMeet Film Shelf
3:09 How Jasmine became a filmmaker
4:23 Reshoots and actors who 'live in LA'
6:00 Who directs the director?
6:55 Cinematographer vs. DP
10:25 The ecosystem that broke
11:44 What editing really costs
17:46 Horror, comedy and Scream
20:06 Writing characters you want dead
22:56 Deadly DMs, Whispers and what's next
25:26 Perfection will kill your project
27:26 Lessons for the next film
34:26 Actors, money and the hustle
40:44 Your name is your career
44:07 Where to find them

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Killer Revenge (2026), dir. Jasmine Davis
Online Dating (Jasmine's first film)
Sinners (2025), dir. Ryan Coogler, shot by Autumn Durald Arkapaw
The Experiment, dir. Hugo Will
Halloween (1978)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Scream (1996), dir. Wes Craven, written by Kevin Williamson
Deadly DMs (in development)
Whispers (short film)
Killer Revenge 2 (coming)